Transfer Lithograph, ca. 1909, 300 x 435 mm., Guérin N.D., B. N. Inv. 177, Faxon 288. A fine impression on heavy, cream wove paper with very large, full margins. The work is signed neither in pencil nor in the stone but is clearly an original work by Forain, and probably rare, as it has not appeared at auction in the last twenty or so years. Hardly a sympathetic image, it presents the fat cats and tipsters of the day emerging from the Paris Bourse, drawn in Forain’s characteristic rapid, vibrant and slashing lines.